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christmas soon...
He took it out of her hand, fascinated, as always, by the soft,
rainwatery appearance of the glass. 'What is it, do you think?' said Julia. 'I don't think it's anything -- I mean, I don't think it was ever put to any use. That's what I like about it. It's a little chunk of history that they've forgotten to alter. It's a message from a hundred years ago, if one knew how to read it.' 'And that picture over there' -- she nodded at the engraving on the opposite wall -- 'would that be a hundred years old?' 'More. Two hundred, I dare say. One can't tell. It's impossible to discover the age of anything nowadays.' She went over to look at it. 'Here's where that brute stuck his nose out,' she said, kicking the wainscoting immediately below the picture. 'What is this place? I've seen it before somewhere.' 'It's a church, or at least it used to be. St. Clement's Danes its name was.' The fragment of rhyme that Mr. Charrington had taught him came back into his head, and he added half-nostalgically: "Oranges and lemons," say the bells of St. Clement's!' To his astonishment she capped the line: 'You owe me three farthings,' say the bells of St. Martin's, 'When will you pay me?' say the bells of Old Bailey-- 'I can't remember how it goes on after that. But an |
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